Distribution

Price in US$: 90$ 2009Start date: Wed 01 of Jan., 2003Project/Program or commercial distribution: The Patsari Program is based in the Highlands of Central Mexico, and seeks to set up a model that can be up scaled and replicated in other regions. The program has five main components that are highly integrated: technology innovation and market development, a cookstove dissemination package, support to micro-enterprise development, monitoring and evaluation and outreach activities. One of the program salient features is the development and dissemination of a new efficient woodburning cookstove named “Patsari”.

Number of stoves sold or distributed: 40000

Performance

Efficiency testing method and who did it: In the CCT for tortilla making, the main cooking task in Mexican rural households, Patsari stoves showed fuelwood savings ranging from 44% to 65% in relation to traditional open fires (n ¼ 6; Po0.05). These savings were similar in magnitude to the average energy savings from KPT before and after Patsari adoption of 67% in ruralhouseholds exclusively using fuelwood. Similar energy savings of 66% for fuelwood and 64% for LPG, respectively, were also observed in households using mixed fuels.

Armendáriz, C, et al. 2008. “Reductions in personal exposures and indoor concentrations of PM and CO in rural Mexico as a result of the installation of a Patsari improved cookstove”. Indoor Air. 18(2):93-105.